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Qmail Rocks on Ubuntu

A stock Ubuntu server install will need a few additional packages to support Qmail Rocks.

apt-get install openssh-server
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install openssl

Virtual Hosts

When you run config-fast you set your main STMP host. If you need other virtual hosts then you must edit your rcpthosts file.

# ./config-fast mail.vinylinteractive.com
Your fully qualified host name is mail.vinylinteractive.com.
Putting mail.vinylinteractive.com into control/me...
Putting vinylinteractive.com into control/defaultdomain...
Putting vinylinteractive.com into control/plusdomain...
Putting mail.vinylinteractive.com into control/locals...
Putting mail.vinylinteractive.com into control/rcpthosts...
Now qmail will refuse to accept SMTP messages except to mail.vinylinteractive.com.
Make sure to change rcpthosts if you add hosts to locals or virtualdomains!